You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer
- BELGIUM, HONG KONG / 2023 / English / Color, B&W / DCP / 5 min
Director, Script, Photography, Editing, Animation: Max Ferguson
Sound: Seppe Indigne
Source: Max Ferguson
The fangs are bared and the body is devoured. The pain, wounds, and cries that dwell within. The pain inflicted by others gouges the wounds, pries them open and pierces them, deepening the mental anguish. The fragments of the body, collaged through paper animation, are regenerated and then destroyed, and the butterfly becomes a moth. The words of the filmmaker’s woven poetry create a whirlpool of screams that swell into an undulating force. The filmmaker’s visceral physical expression, which awakens the five senses, is echoed by a delicate and original soundscape that hurls itself at us from the screen with full force. (WM)
[Director’s Statement]
I am a woman. Behold my unwomanly face.
This is a phrase that runs through my work at a whisper and sometimes as a shout. I create films that grow out of my own life and transform my singular experiences into universal emotions that perhaps can offer a soothing balm or a helping hand.
I am endlessly in awe over the duality of being extremely big and absolutely miniscule. I imagine myself as a small child with wide eyes, endlessly watching the world turning, drawing on the wisdom of those who came before to process this lifelong parade into moments small enough to fit in the palm of a hand.
I want the world to feel my caress through my films. I would like to touch and be touched back.
Max FergusonBrussels-based curator and filmmaker from Hong Kong who uses the curatorial as a basket to hold her interests. With her practice and foundations firmly rooted in the audiovisual arts, Ferguson tests the limits of poetry in order to explore how to relate our own experiences to others. This blurred line between techniques, forms and disciplines is a binding element within Ferguson’s constellation of work. Ferguson is a founding member of the cinema collective LuCi which places Brussels as the setting for varied encounters between students, artists and cultural workers with the moving image in all its forms.